Re: [PATCH v4 3/9] mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock

[Johannes Weiner]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 08:23:17PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> This patchset move lru_lock into lruvec, give a lru_lock for each of
> lruvec, thus bring a lru_lock for each of memcg per node.
> 
> This is the main patch to replace per node lru_lock with per memcg
> lruvec lock.
> 
> We introduce function lock_page_lruvec, it's same as vanilla pgdat lock
> when memory cgroup unset, w/o memcg, the function will keep repin the
> lruvec's lock to guard from page->mem_cgroup changes in page
> migrations between memcgs. (Thanks Hugh Dickins and Konstantin
> Khlebnikov reminder on this. Than the core logical is same as their
> previous patchs)
> 
> According to Daniel Jordan's suggestion, I run 64 'dd' with on 32
> containers on my 2s* 8 core * HT box with the modefied case:
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/vm-scalability.git/tree/case-lru-file-readtwice
> 
> With this and later patches, the dd performance is 144MB/s, the vanilla
> kernel performance is 123MB/s. 17% performance increased.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: swkhack <swkhack@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Potyra, Stefan" <Stefan.Potyra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h | 24 +++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/mmzone.h     |  2 ++
>  mm/compaction.c            | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  mm/huge_memory.c           | 15 ++++------
>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  mm/mlock.c                 | 31 ++++++++++---------
>  mm/mmzone.c                |  1 +
>  mm/page_idle.c             |  5 ++--
>  mm/swap.c                  | 74 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  mm/vmscan.c                | 58 +++++++++++++++++------------------
>  10 files changed, 214 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 5b86287fa069..9538253998a6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -418,6 +418,10 @@ static inline struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_lruvec(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  
>  struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *, struct pglist_data *);
>  
> +struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *, struct pglist_data *);
> +struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irqsave(struct page *, struct pglist_data *,
> +					unsigned long*);
> +
>  struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p);
>  
>  struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
> @@ -901,6 +905,26 @@ static inline struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *page,
>  	return &pgdat->__lruvec;
>  }
>  
> +static inline struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *page,
> +						struct pglist_data *pgdat)
> +{
> +	struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
> +
> +	spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> +
> +	return lruvec;

While this works in practice, it looks wrong because it doesn't follow
the mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() rules.

Please open-code spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->__lruvec->lru_lock) instead.

> @@ -1246,6 +1245,46 @@ struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *page, struct pglist_data *pgd
>  	return lruvec;
>  }
>  
> +struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *page,
> +					struct pglist_data *pgdat)
> +{
> +	struct lruvec *lruvec;
> +
> +again:
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
> +	spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> +	rcu_read_unlock();

The spinlock doesn't prevent the lruvec from being freed.

You deleted the rules from the mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() documentation,
but they still apply: if the page is already !PageLRU() by the time
you get here, it could get reclaimed or migrated to another cgroup,
and that can free the memcg/lruvec. Merely having the lru_lock held
does not prevent this.

Either the page needs to be locked, or the page needs to be PageLRU
with the lru_lock held to prevent somebody else from isolating
it. Otherwise, the lruvec is not safe to use.